Restart Steam from HHD Menu

[aerodevxp]

Hi,

In some rare cases, the Steam overlay freezes on me. This has happened to me on several devices, rocking different Linux distros. It's a Steam issue most likely. Steam is the only thing that hangs. The games themselves are okay.

Anyways, I've been SSHing myself into the devices and restarting Steam using pkill -TERM steamwebhelper && sleep 1. However, this requires both a network and another device. Since all processes are responsives when the Steam overlays freezes, including HHD, it'd be cool to have a button that runs that command!

[antheas]

Hmmmm. Most devices allow you to hold the select button or similar to reboot. That feature was added specifically for this issue. Although after adding it, we managed to get to a point where it was stable enough most people dont use it

[aerodevxp]

Bazzite on my Legion Go has its bad moments unfortunately lol, sometimes mid game and I can't save. If I were to reboot the entire device, I'd lose my progress :(.

[antheas]

Does killing steam not mess with the game? This does not make sense to me for some reason

[aerodevxp]

Perhaps Steam itself, but the steamwebhelper just restart themselves after being killed, fixing the UI freeze.